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  • 2012
  • Indie Rights
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2012
  • Indie Rights
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Jian Ping was born in China in 1960, during the cultural revolution. After many hardships, she immigrated to America where she gave birth to her own daughter. As an emotional and cultural distance grew between her and her daughter, Jian began to write her memoir. And on a trip to modern China to visit relatives, Jian began to educate her...

Directed By: Susan Morgan Cooper

Written By: Susan Morgan Cooper

  • 2012
  • Indie Rights
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2012
  • Indie Rights
  • 1 h 25 m

Mulberry Child

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Summary Jian Ping was born in China in 1960, during the cultural revolution. After many hardships, she immigrated to America where she gave birth to her own daughter. As an emotional and cultural distance grew between her and her daughter, Jian began to write her memoir. And on a trip to modern China to visit relatives, Jian began to educate her...

Directed By: Susan Morgan Cooper

Written By: Susan Morgan Cooper

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Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews
54
25% Positive
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75% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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75% Mixed
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88
Sep 12, 2012
There's a universal story here about immigrant parents and children, and how American culture can swamp family traditions, and make parents and children culturally unrecognizable to one another.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 5, 2012
In the film based on her memoir Mulberry Child, Jian Ping speaks of her family's ordeal during the Cultural Revolution with searing detail and not an ounce of sentimentality. The same can't be said of director Susan Morgan Cooper's heavy-handed approach to the material.
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50
Sep 12, 2012
A documentary -- based in part on Jian Ping's autobiographical book of the same name -- whose poignancy is lessened by its awkward formal devices.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 12, 2012
The film's subject matter is epochal, its delivery less so.
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Production Company Morgan Cooper Productions
Release Date Sep 14, 2012
Duration 1 h 25 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/mulberrychildmovie
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Awards

Madrid International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Bahamas International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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